How Do You Learn To Use Linux?
• Become familiar with the system. Try downloading and installing it yourself on your computer, it’s possible to keep your current operating system and dedicate part of your hard drive to Linux (but you can run both at the same time with virtualbox). You may find this article useful if you plan to run Windows and Linux on the same PC. • Test your hardware with a “Live CD” that is supplied by many of the distributions of Linux. This is helpful if you feel uncomfortable with installing a second operating system on your computer. A live CD will allow you to boot into a Linux environment from the CD, without the need to install anything on your computer. Ubuntu and some other Linux distributions also offer CDs or DVDs that allow you to boot into a Live mode, and then install from the same disk, here. • Attempt the tasks you usually use your computer for. Search for solutions if you can’t word-process or burn a CD for example. Make a note of what you want to do, can do and cannot do before
